It also gives him popups!

A screen appeared before me so suddenly that I nearly stumbled back. It was one I didn’t recognize, yellow in color, and I would have sworn at it if the Gamer’s Mind hadn’t calmed me. Instead, I look a deep breath and looked at it, figuring it might actually be important.

I stared.

You have 1 new message!

“What…?” I murmured, looking around as if I might find a message box somewhere. I had a new message? What kind of message? From who? And how? The only messages I got were from—

I paused before reaching into my Inventory with one hand, fishing out my scroll. Sure enough, the light was blinking, indicating that I had a new message.

I eyed it strangely. I suppose it wasn’t that odd, relatively speaking. In games where you had scrolls and such, it wasn’t uncommon for you to get an alert when you got something—except I never had, even when I’d gotten messages in the past, so what was going on? Had my power changed somehow or…

No, I thought as something occurred to me. This was something new and it just so happened that I had just gotten something new. I’d turned off most of my abilities to maximize my MP regeneration, but I’d left several on for being useful—including my new Clairvoyance. I’d kept it because being able to see my Aura made ‘speaking’ with it that much easier, but…

It had interacted with my Elemental Affinities, I mused. Could it be interacting with…I suppose it would be the Gamer’s Body? It wasn’t that hard to believe; the information I got from Observe appeared to me in the form of a pop-up window, so I knew stuff could work like that, but I hadn’t…